Creating Curriculum

Creating a curriculum for Youth and Family Ministry 

Where to begin?

As a Director or Leader of a Youth and Family Ministry program, you might ask yourself:

• Is what we are teaching modeling knowing "about"God/Spirit or knowing "how" to live a faith-filled life?
• When we are concerned with the "about" of the subject matter,  we become focused on the facts and information.
• When we are focused on the "how" we learn from lived experience and the practice of their moral and religious/spiritual values.
• Knowing "About" relates to the Bible, and the stories in the Bible.  It is not enough to only know about, we must know how to live according to the principles and practices that were taught by Jesus, our Master Teacher.
• Knowing "How" and knowing "About" together is the very kind of knowing that Jesus advocated and the biblical sense of knowing.  It is an integration of the head and the heart.

      Explicit curriculum:  

            What is used in the classrooms.  The Lesson Plan 

            materials provided by Unity and Unity Ministers.

            Unitots:     Birth - Kindergarten

•  Godly Play

            Unikids:    K - 2nd Grade

•  Celebrating My God Self

            KidZ:         3rd - 5th Grade

•  Diane Venzera's Curricula

            Uniteens:  6th - 8th Grade

• 12 Powers for Teens

            Y.O.U.:     9th -12th Grade (Youth of Unity)

• Self designed and guided program with Sponsors                                   

           N.G.U.:     18 - 35 year olds (Next Generation Unity)     

•       Discussion groups
•       Acts of Service